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Soon it will be time to resume our FENCING PROJECT, my favorite!!! And you'll never guess why......

Because it involves lots of pressure washing, which is the most satisfying task ever invented, period. I LOVE my Honda pressure washer (don't worry, I lovemytacolots more though)! 2nd fave toy for sure though. Oooh, I might have to post some pics of that powerful little dude, he's bad ass! Just did the army mechanic neighbor's driveway, and now she is obsessed with it too and keeps begging me to do their walkways, etc....

As fellow PNW people on the thread already know, we get to deal with slimy mossy mildewy stuff on everything outdoors here in the NW. What was once a beautiful honey colored cedar fence has turned to ugly grey yuck over the years. Until..........it meets my other tough little red Honda!! And a whole lot of stain....

But part of the fencing project is replacing the fence posts, since they are old and starting to rot. Which is where the Taco comes in. Concrete and posts and lots and lots of treated 2x4s. She will be working hard soon enough, no more lounging around and getting new parts for her anymore, time to start earning her keep!

And then we get this gorgeous new fence, for very little cost. Unless my arm falling off from countless hours of pressure washing and staining counts as a cost. And unless Eric nearly breaking his back lugging/prying concrete fence footings out of the ground counts as a cost. What can I say, we are kinda weird like that, we like to work til near death on projects like that, then do some of this while admiring our work.

 

So you think it's not a half baked idea then?



Seriously though, I hear what you're saying, that's kind of what has stopped me from trying to open a place yet. Well, start up $ would be nice too. But mostly its the fear that you'd risk so much to get started, then it would suck BAD if something you loved to do that much started becoming a dreaded task, because of doing it on a bigger scale, to other people's demands.
Although, I just can't imagine how driving the Taco around and selling cinnamon rolls could suck that much.....doing lots of thisand this sounds pretty

Oooh, and truck cookies too! Koditten and Matt, be honest - were they awesome or just so so?

 

I loved the artwork on the truck cookies, the little, flingging mud and tacomaworldwas a great detail. To be honest, the taste was like any other Christmas cookie, cookie. I really never took a shine to Xmas cookies. I'm a CChip guy! I soak those babbies in milk unit they are soft. Mmm, good! Love me some CChips.

 

If you got a trailer, you could haul 2x as much with half the trips. I know a guy that builds top shelf utility trailers. I do know for a fact that he is itching to build a few just to combat boredom.

 

And who would that be exactly?

 

I know CC's are darn good. The little "mud on the tires" cookies are pretty awesome though, huh?!? Hmm, may have to get some of those going for my next baking adventure......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_eyvTPgnM4

Usually I'm not a fan of new country (only the classics baby!) but this song is pretty awesome. And very fitting with the current topic. Only problem is the lyrics should say "Tacoma" instead of "Chevrolet"

I might get to do that very soon!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap. Just realized we have not left the Portland metro area since fall because of the Taco's illnesses. We are totally going somewhere this weekend, hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!

 

Run up to Hood For some dinner at the Resort at the Mountain in Welches. There is the Altitude, Mallards cafe,,or Wee Bite. Both The Altitude and Mallards are good, haven't ate at the Wee Bite. Climb the big hill and see how it does.

"Crazy Electrode Icing and Bakery" needs a drink and a break.

 

Oooh, good title Mod! I like it!! May as well try to capitalize on this ordeal, right?

Here's the new plan for long term: Koditten is going to build me a trailer that looks like a cinnamon roll, then 1st stop is Michigan. After that, we can roll by my Mom's in Illinois, and invade her kitchen to bake mass quantities of cinnamon rolls. Then it's off to do the lovemytacolots cinnamon roll USA tour, stopping by all major cities, especially those nearest to the "5 guys" : ) Show your TW membership and receive 2 for 1 pricing. Totally doing this. You ready to do this Koditten?

Here's the plan for the short term: Prineville!!!!!! We love central OR, and it's the perfect length trip for now I think, just a one nighter, pretty drive, all that good stuff. Coming out of the Mt. Hood forest and into the open views of the central Cascades is purty dang sweet. Maybe we'll get stuck in a Prineville traffic jam and pick up some good video footage for TW Thinking a nice little hike in central Oregon and actually getting away overnight for the first time in more than 6 months would be about right!!

BTW, Mod, we did talk about Hood. We used to ride Magic Mile every single Sat/Sun in spring ski seasons, cuz the spring pass up there is only like $100. Timby is definitely my fave, Meadows is too crowded and aggressive. One time we got so roasted from the reflection of the sun off the snow on the Mile that we actually had to miss work for a few days. It was that bad. It was so hot and sunny we were riding in T shirts, thinking how cool it was to be able to do that........until we looked in the mirror at home and saw what we'd done. Derp! Anyway, it's been years since we've done that, so I mentioned the idea. Eric was like, um, we're too out of shape to do that right now! Which reminds me - you mentioned some good eats up there, we'll have to check 'em out. I like the buffet at Timby upstairs in that kinda fancy part, yum. Although the Blue Ox blows them all away.

 

Tonight's whiskey toast is brought to you in honor of Koditten and Hetkind........

Cheers TW!! Just ran a few errands (liquor store, never made it yesterday) and she is still starting like a champ, EVERY SINGLE TIME. I have to admit, it's tempting to get lazy about driving/starting to be sure, because I just know this is the fix this time. I can tell. It's like we finally got our old Taco back you guys, it's really freaking cool. Feels totally different driving her now, knowing how thoroughly those guys went over her. But tomorrow's plan is to run 5 billion errands I've been too busy with other crap to get done. She will be worked hard tomorrow, stay tuned.



PS: Couldn't decide which one, so we figured why choose?

By the way, @noahpete and @Jayman405, any favorite beverages?

 

Yah, got my face cooked spring skiing at Meadows when in College. Bad, Bad. Blistered up and then started draining yellow gunk. Lucky to keep my average ugly looks. Was last on the planks in 2001,,would tip over gasping first run now if I tried that. Not enough oxygen up there now,,lol. It would take a extremely large bota bag now to get it done.

Prineville is nice. Played on the golf course there with les Schwab back in the day during a company get together/BBQ.

Grab some permits and hit some of the country fairs back there,,with the cinna rolls and new trailer. You have this debacle paid for in no time.

 

For reals dude!! We could totally pull this off. Oooh, fairs and rodeos would be fun to sell stuff at! In the lovemytacolots mobile!! I kind of want to do Toyota themed baked goods. I wonder if I need some kind of legal permission to do that? Making truck cookies is pretty fun. And making them themed to my all time fave automotive brand for life (thanks to 2 certain peeps) would be even more fun. Hmmm. Might need to research this one.....

 

Good choice on the likker.

Never built a C. ROLL trailer, could be interesting. I'll mic a drink myself and do some heavy thinking.

 

Hell yeah!! We are totally doing this man. Not kidding. Or maybe it's the J & B talking, or the fact that the Taco just started BEAUTIFULLY yet again after running errands and doing the old set the timer routine. Can't believe the set the timer days are over you guys. Pretty unblankingbelievable.

 

i'll take an order to go, delivered to nawlins

 

No way! You actually live in New Orleans? I knew you were in Louisiana, but didn't know you were clear down there. Holy cow, never been there! Would be a hell of an excuse to go check it out, getting to deliver Cinnamon Rolls to Keakar! : ) And in the lovemytacolots mobile at that! : )

Where's the rest of the 5 from? Koditten's in Michigan; DP's in CO, Bama's in FL, Mod's in WA, and........1......2......3....4..........tipsy counting........um, and Keakar!

I always feel a twinge of guilt though when I mention the "5 guys" (even though it's connotations are kind of hilarious to me ) because there have been so many more than 5. Let's see........

Knuckle is in OH, right?
Hetkind, CA, right?
And my good buddy Matt (and hopefully his soon to be wife Lyndsey - Matt, she's a keeper, pop the question!!) are in IL
Sterdog is way the hell up in Canada in the boonies, right?
Steve 4x4 is in NY, right? Sweet, swing by VT!!
Ten Beers, you live in Missouri, right?
Pulldo, where are you at?
Peerunner?

DP, can we move in for a bit on the swing back westward? I've always wanted to try living in Colorado. We will just live in, as well as sell lovemytacolots cinnamon rolls for a brief period of time in your driveway. Don't worry, we won't be any bother

Just remembered........hetkind promised a serious party if this was ever solved. Seriously - you guys remember that, right? He spoke of whiskey barrels, homemade butter and biscuits, and some sweet national forest nearby to do lots of this in

Are we doing this TW? Hetkind, I WILL find the post if you don't step up and do this man!!

 

And.............

There you have it folks. Party at hetkinds. TW party. Let's do this.

 

Having removed far more fence posts then I ever want to think about. In my misguided youth Mom and her Horses!!

If you don`t have a tractor with a bucket or 3 point hitch the best way is to use a High Lift Jack depending how hard the ground is a base plate might be needed.

Pops things loose with very little effort.

 

I think that's what he used, a farm jack or something? Some kind of serious looking jack. But still, those suckers were really in there!

Then the 75 yr old super nice neighbor (the one with every carpentry tool under the sun, used to be a framer) insisted on helping Eric, in spite of our pleas for him to sit down, don't worry about it, we got this, etc. He's stubborn. Used to be a framer, so his fave pastime is coming over and giving Eric "pointers" (AKA telling him what to do) on how to build things. Then I always start asking a billion questions such as "why would you do it like that?" and he gets super pissed, not used to being asked to justify a construction method to someone, especially me!! Anyway, I couldn't watch anymore once he started "helping". Time to go inside and get a beer at that point.

 

All you folks are welcome here in far North East Tennessee anytime you would like. I am 20 miles from the Bristol Motor Speedway, 20 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway and under a mile from the Appalachian Trail. Plenty of room to camp and there a miles and miles of jeep trails in adjoining Cherokee National Forest.

 

OK, this could very well be the cutest thing you'll ever see in your life, worth watching:

https://youtu.be/1u5AUS2mu_M

This was our impromptu street celebration over the Taco with army mechanic neighbor and his family last night. Their adorable little 1 yr old daughter is learning certain words, so while toasting to the Taco's updated status, we taught her to say "Taco" - cutest thing you'll ever see.

That kid is going to be a Master Tech by age 10. She hangs out with me and her momma a good chunk of each day, and for ~5 months now, all her momma and I talk about pretty much all day, every day are things like fuel pressure readings, piston holes, what a bad starter sounds like, how to change the clutch on their Kia, fuel injector mysteries, what's wrong with their Explorer's tranny, etc. You can just see her little brain working hard and soaking up all that info! This sweet little 1 yr old girl picked up a screwdriver the other day while her army mechanic dad was replacing his mower's carb, and started poking around at it with him. He was super proud!